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Quotes About Return

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
~ Harold Bloom
When I was invited to return to the 2015 One Young World summit in Bangkok, I knew that I had to make it back. One Young World had given me a platform, and for me it was vitally important for new delegates to hear about North Korea.
~ Park Yeon-mi
I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
~ Randy Moss
Tous mes adieux sont faits. Tant de départs m'ont lentement formé dès mon enfance. Mais je reviens encor, je recommence, ce franc retour libère mon regard. Ce qui me reste, c'est de le remplir, et ma joie toujours impénitente d'avoir aimé des choses ressemblantes à ces absences qui nous font agir.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The sunken are always seeking the earth again.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't grieve too much. This hour of parting is the hardest; the years will pass before you know they have come and gone. They will pass as night does in sleep, and I will return to you.
~ Ramesh Menon
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
~ Randy Alcorn
The human race is homesick for Eden, which only two humans have ever known. We spend our lives chasing peaceful delight, following dead ends or cul-de-sacs in pursuit of home. We know intuitively that we've wandered. What we don't know is how to return. Our lives are largely the story of the often wrong and occasionally right turns we take in our attempts to get home to Happiness with a capital H—God himself.
~ Randy Alcorn
Tragically, I cannot help but wonder if we have now abandoned truth to return to the palace, and rather than sitting alone under a tree waiting for enlightenment, we gravitate to mass entertainment under lights that cater to mass ignorance.
~ Ravi Zacharias
No, said a voice, the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Scrabbling about, every part of her seemed a separate animal. Her arms and legs, her hands, her head, each was a lopped off bit of some creature wild to return to itself, but blind to the proper way of making that return.
~ Ray Bradbury
And Jim was there, half in, half out of the cold glass tides like someone abandoned on a seashore when a close friend has gone far out, and there is wonder if he will ever come back.
~ Ray Bradbury
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.
~ Joseph Conrad
they had never returned. What became of the hens I don't know either. I should think the cause of progress got them, anyhow. However, through this glorious affair I got my appointment, before I had fairly begun to hope for it. I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract. In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of
~ Joseph Conrad
I went a little farther, then still a little farther - till I had gone so far that I don't know how I'll ever get back.
~ Joseph Conrad
I had gone so far that I don´t know how I'll ever get back.
~ Joseph Conrad
As those, for instance, in Ireland celebrate the return to growth (in 2015 it was Europe's fastest growing economy),1 they need to remember: every (or almost every) economy recovers from a downturn.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
Why do investors fail to realize that money placed in a mutual fund that tries to pick "out-performing stocks" is unlikely to yield a better return than money invested in the S&P 500? If fund managers and investment advisers are so good at picking stocks, why are they risking your money rather than their own? Some
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
Collection or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.
~ Joshua Bloch
Out of obscurity I came. To obscurity I can return.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
All your life, you yearn to return to what has been. You yearn to return to those you have lost. You will do terrible things to return, which no one else can understand.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Sí. Y tal vez no regrese. Así comenzaron todos. Que voy a ir aquí, que voy a ir más allá. Hasta que se fueron alejando tanto, que mejor no volvieron.
~ Juan Rulfo